Flagler Estates News
Helping to build community by sharing ideas

Welcome to the Flagler Estates Community news and information portal site. We encourage you as a member to participate in our Forums, Classifieds, Job Postings, Chat Rooms, and other modules within this portal. This News Portal is a community service for Hastings, Armstrong, Elkton Florida and Flagler Estates. Membership IS FREE here at FECN, and this site IS THE TOP ranked site for Flaglerestates on the Internet today!

Although ANYONE may view most of this sites content (there are some exceptions), ONLY registered members of this site are allowed to Post content such as News, Forums, Blogs, Classifieds, and photos.  Creating postings within this site is very EASY thanks to our inline what you see is what you get editing system. This site is about as EASY as it gets anywhere on the Web today for allowing you the creative freedom you need to express yourself and even do a great service for your community and yourself at the same time

By Default New members will have access to post in the: Forums, Recipes menu,Links Section, Jokes section, on page Chat Box, Private Messenging system, and will have wysiwyg access (to help you create effective and even fun postings).

Other areas which are available are our: Members Blogs, Job Search, Article Channels, Events Calendar, Classifieds, and in some cases even our News Columns. Registered members ONLY NEED ASK to have us create a New Category in any of the above. Members ONLY NEED ASK to receive an Audio/Video tutorial which covers ANYTHING you may wish to do within our site.

This is YOUR SITE!  You are the star of the day! There is no better way for others to learn about the issues this site is here to address than to turn it over to those with a deep desire and need to make their voices heard - Members of this site have such a voice as this site gets a LOT of traffic and views every day

Written by PETER GUINTA

Monday, 10 December 2007 00:18

By: Peter Guinta Publication Date: 12/09/07 A Jacksonville Beach developer plans to apply for permission to build 5,000 new homes on the St. Johns County line near the headwaters of Pellicer Creek. This project, called Old Brick Township, also will have 150,000 square feet of retail and industrial space plus a one million square-foot industrial park. The landowner, Wilson Green LLC, has filed a pre-application for this new development of regional impact. The pre-application typically leads to a meeting with all interested parties participating, such as county and regional planners and environmental groups. Old Brick Road will consist of five villages on 5,216 acres that will wrap around the southeastern corner of St. Johns County, the application said. No major roads touch the property yet. It sits southeast of County Road 13 and west of Palm Coast. It can be reached at present only by Old Brick Road, which forms its western boundary after branching south off State Road 204 and ending at State Road 100.

Read the rest...

We need a few people with basic typing skills to sort articles to be published on our News Site. No particular design skills are required (if you have them, great), just basic ability to type, copy, and paste material. This is a very EASY thing to do here at our news site as we have a complete editing system which allows Photo uploads, Video and Audio uploads and more for a total online News and information System for Flagler Estates/Hastings Florida area concerns.

Anyone interested, please contact us via our Contact Us Page.

ANNE MARIE APOLLO
The Times-Union
Publication Date: 07/03/07

EAST PALATKA -- Out a road called Cracker Swamp, tree limbs that reach over a length of still, brown canal are just as likely to sway from the pressure of a combine as a passing pickup truck. Remote even by Putnam County standards, there are still parts of old Florida there. Farmers are out early on their tractors; children spend the summer on wide wooden porches.

But in a place where it seems as though almost nothing has changed any time recently, a development unlike anything Putnam County has seen before is on the way. Hailed by some as the county's future and others as a desecration of its past, Mariposa would put 3,230 houses as well as hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail, office and business park space on 2,025 acres of land, nearly half of which would be held for conservation.

Read the rest...

Impact of housing development will be talked about today
Marcia Lane
Publication Date: 09/13/07

St. Johns and Putnam county administrators and staff meet at 1 p.m. today to discuss the expected impacts of a planned mega-development on the Putnam side of the county line.

Mariposa is planned as a Development of Regional Impact, but St. Johns officials contend Putnam has gone forward without taking into account concerns raised by other governing bodies, including St. Johns County. Putnam officials say St. Johns never raised any objections.

Read the rest...